Notes From A Small Island
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Notes From A Small Island
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Author : Bill Bryson
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2010-03-02
Notes From A Small Island written by Bill Bryson and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03-02 with Travel categories.
In 1995, before leaving his much-loved home in North Yorkshire to move back to the States for a few years with his family, Bill Bryson insisted on taking one last trip around Britain, a sort of valedictory tour of the green and kindly island that had so long been his home. His aim was to take stock of the nation's public face and private parts (as it were), and to analyse what precisely it was he loved so much about a country that had produced Marmite; a military hero whose dying wish was to be kissed by a fellow named Hardy; place names like Farleigh Wallop, Titsey and Shellow Bowells; people who said 'Mustn't grumble', and ‘Ooh lovely’ at the sight of a cup of tea and a plate of biscuits; and Gardeners' Question Time. Notes from a Small Island was a huge number-one bestseller when it was first published, and has become the nation's most loved book about Britain, going on to sell over two million copies.
Small Island
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Author : Andrea Levy
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2009-04-30
Small Island written by Andrea Levy and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-04-30 with Fiction categories.
Small Island by bestselling author Andrea Levy won the Orange Prize for Fiction and the Orange Prize 'Best of the Best' as well as the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Whitbread. Possibly the definitive fictional account of the experiences of the Empire Windrush generation, it was selected by the BBC as one of its '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'. 'A great read... honest, skilful, thoughtful and important' Guardian It is 1948, and England is recovering from a war. But at 21 Nevern Street, London, the conflict has only just begun. Queenie Bligh's neighbours don't approve when she agrees to take in Jamaican lodgers, but with her husband, Bernard, not back from the war, she has little choice in the matter. Gilbert Joseph was one of the many Jamaican men who joined the RAF to fight Hitler. But when he returns to England as a civilian he doesn't receive the welcome he was expecting, and it's desperation that drives him to knock at Queenie's door. Gilbert's wife Hortense, who for years has longer for a better life in England, soon joins him. But London is far from the golden city of her dreams, and even Gilbert is not the man she thought he was. Small Island explores a point in England's past when the country began to change. In this delicately wrought and profoundly moving novel, Andrea Levy handles the weighty themes of empire, prejudice, war and love, with a superb lightness of touch and generosity of spirit. 'An engrossing read - slyly funny, passionately angry and wholly involving' Daily Mail 'Gives us a new urgent take on our past' Vogue
I M A Stranger Here Myself
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Author : Bill Bryson
language : en
Publisher: Crown
Release Date : 2008-05-13
I M A Stranger Here Myself written by Bill Bryson and has been published by Crown this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-05-13 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A classic from the New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body. After living in Britain for two decades, Bill Bryson recently moved back to the United States with his English wife and four children (he had read somewhere that nearly 3 million Americans believed they had been abducted by aliens—as he later put it, "it was clear my people needed me"). They were greeted by a new and improved America that boasts microwave pancakes, twenty-four-hour dental-floss hotlines, and the staunch conviction that ice is not a luxury item. Delivering the brilliant comic musings that are a Bryson hallmark, I'm a Stranger Here Myself recounts his sometimes disconcerting reunion with the land of his birth. The result is a book filled with hysterical scenes of one man's attempt to reacquaint himself with his own country, but it is also an extended if at times bemused love letter to the homeland he has returned to after twenty years away.
The Digested Read
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Author : John Crace
language : en
Publisher: RDR Books
Release Date : 2005-12
The Digested Read written by John Crace and has been published by RDR Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-12 with Literary Criticism categories.
Literary ombudsman John Crace never met an important book he didn't like to deconstruct. From Salman Rushdie to John Grisham, Crace retells the big books in just 500 bitingly satirical words, pointing his pen at the clunky plots, stylistic tics and pretensions of Big Ideas, as he turns publishers' golden dream books into dross.
Notes From An Island
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Author : Tove Jansson
language : en
Publisher: Sort of Books
Release Date : 2021-10-07
Notes From An Island written by Tove Jansson and has been published by Sort of Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-07 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
For thirty summers Tove and her partner, the graphic artist, Tuulikki Pietilä, retreated to the tiny island of Klovharun, a rocky outcrop in the gulf of Finland, where they would live, paint and write, energised by the shifting seascapes and the island's austere charms. Notes from an Island, offers both a memoir of, and homage to, this beloved island home. Tove's spare prose, and Tuulikki's subtle washes and aquatints, combine to form a work of meditative beauty. This edition includes the first UK publication of Tove's acclaimed 1961 essay/prose poem, The Island.
The Body
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Author : Bill Bryson
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2019-10-03
The Body written by Bill Bryson and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-03 with Science categories.
#1 Bestseller in both hardback and paperback: SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 ROYAL SOCIETY INSIGHT INVESTMENT SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE _______ 'A directory of wonders.' - The Guardian 'Jaw-dropping.' - The Times 'Classic, wry, gleeful Bryson...an entertaining and absolutely fact-rammed book.' - The Sunday Times 'It is a feat of narrative skill to bake so many facts into an entertaining and nutritious book.' - The Daily Telegraph _______ 'We spend our whole lives in one body and yet most of us have practically no idea how it works and what goes on inside it. The idea of the book is simply to try to understand the extraordinary contraption that is us.' Bill Bryson sets off to explore the human body, how it functions and its remarkable ability to heal itself. Full of extraordinary facts and astonishing stories The Body: A Guide for Occupants is a brilliant, often very funny attempt to understand the miracle of our physical and neurological make up. A wonderful successor to A Short History of Nearly Everything, this new book is an instant classic. It will have you marvelling at the form you occupy, and celebrating the genius of your existence, time and time again. 'What I learned is that we are infinitely more complex and wondrous, and often more mysterious, than I had ever suspected. There really is no story more amazing than the story of us.' Bill Bryson
Final Notes From A Great Island
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Author : Neil Humphreys
language : en
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish
Release Date : 2006
Final Notes From A Great Island written by Neil Humphreys and has been published by Marshall Cavendish this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Humor categories.
Dear Bill Bryson
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Author : Ben Aitken
language : en
Publisher: Icon Books
Release Date : 2022-02-03
Dear Bill Bryson written by Ben Aitken and has been published by Icon Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-03 with Travel categories.
FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE ACCLAIMED THE GRAN TOUR AND THE MARMALADE DIARIES An irreverent homage to the '95 travel classic. 'It would be wrong to view this book as just a highly accomplished homage to a personal hero. Aitken's politics, as much as his humour, are firmly in the spotlight, and Dear Bill Bryson achieves more than its title (possibly even its author) intended.' Manchester Review In 2013, travel writer Ben Aitken decided to follow in the footsteps of his hero - literally - and started a journey around the UK, tracing the trip taken by Bill Bryson in his classic tribute to the British Isles, Notes from a Small Island. Staying at the same hotels, ordering the same food, and even spending the same amount of time in the bath, Aitken's homage - updated and with a new preface for 2022 - is filled with wit, insight and humour.
Icons Of England
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Author : Bill Bryson
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2017-02-28
Icons Of England written by Bill Bryson and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-28 with Nature categories.
This celebration of the English countryside does not only focus on the rolling green landscapes and magnificent monuments that set England apart from the rest of the world. Many of the contributors bring their own special touch, presenting a refreshingly eclectic variety of personal icons, from pub signs to seaside piers, from cattle grids to canal boats, and from village cricket to nimbies. First published as a lavish colour coffeetable book, this new expanded paperback edition has double the original number of contributions from many celebrities including Bill Bryson, Michael Palin, Eric Clapton, Bryan Ferry, Sebastian Faulks, Kate Adie, Kevin Spacey, Gavin Pretor-Pinney, Richard Mabey , Simon Jenkins, John Sergeant, Benjamin Zephaniah, Joan Bakewell, Antony Beevor, Libby Purves, Jonathan Dimbleby, and many more: and a new preface by HRH Prince Charles.
Cambridge Certificate Of Proficiency In English
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Author : University of Cambridge. Local Examinations Syndicate
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2002
Cambridge Certificate Of Proficiency In English written by University of Cambridge. Local Examinations Syndicate and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with English language categories.